Click HERE to read the Digital Edition. In the 2012 Quarter 2 Issue 2012 AIMCAL Awards 2012 FPA Achievement Awards Impact of web-product development on web handling How to upgrade your web-handling drives Guidelines for selecting idler rolls Barrier Packaging Materia...

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You’ve got only 10 days to get yourself over to Düsseldorf, Germany, for what’s left of drupa 2012. Yes, in one sense, that’s saying quite a lot because any other trade show that started on May 3 would have long since been over with by now. But drupa’s not just another s...

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CPP EXPO 2012, held last week at Cleveland’s I-X Center, brought together about 125 exhibitors — many featuring new products for the package printing and converting field. Here are just a few: Beta LaserMike’s LaserSpeed® non-contact encoder helps converters accurately...

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With featured speakers on film technology, sustainability, packaging and nonwovens, the next meeting of Converting Influence will offer something for everyone. The spring program, set for May 17 at the Bordini Center of Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI, will start off with networking and...

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Any trade show the size of something like last week’s NPE2012 in Orlando, FL, clearly needs at least a few days to see with any real measure of thoroughness. I had a whole six hours. While I was in town the day before to attend the ICE USA 2013 Steering Committee meeting, I had to leave by a ...

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Pretty much halfway between last year’s successful premiere of ICE USA (Intl. Converting Exhibition) and the next edition, I took part in a Steering Committee meeting on Tuesday for the 2013 show, along with nine other industry-advisory members. (Check out our team photo below). Set for April ...

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Today marks 30 days and counting until the opening of drupa 2012: world market print media, publishing and converting at the Fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany. The two-week trade show runs May 3-16 and fills Halls 1-17 plus outside areas on the massive site along the Rhine River. More than 1,8...

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Dual AIMCAL technical programs will feature 60 presentations, two keynote speakers, tabletop exhibitions and more. The AIMCAL Web Coating Conference and the AIMCAL Web Handling Conference (formerly AWEB) have a long, joint history of advancing the technologies of web processing and finishing. By ...

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2011 PLGA Global Domestic Best of Show Winner: Noni Maui Health sleeve label printed by Multi-Color Corp. (Batavia, OH) Yeah, there’s been a lot of “doom and gloom” from various industry pundits over the past 10 years about the continued  viability of rotogravure as a p...

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The 2012 Flexible Packaging Assn. annual meeting held last week in Scottsdale, AZ, was not even 48 hrs long, but it was packed with informative presentations to help the nearly 300 industry professionals on hand stay flexible amid the continuing US economic recovery. A highlight of the program is al...

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